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Red Sky at Night

Red Sky at Night


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This work looks at the everyday life of John Barrington, a shepherd to over 750 Blackface ewes who graze near some of Britain's most beautiful hills overlooking Loch Katrine.

About the Author :
John Barrington is a hill shepherd, living in Rob Roy MacGregor's old house in the heart of the Scottish Highlands. With his faithful companions, Barrington gives sheepdog demonstrations throughout the summer and keeps active over the long winter as a rugby referee. A noted sheep judge, he was delighted recently to be invited to officiate at theRoyal Highland Show in Edinburgh. Like most shepherds, Barrington is a natural storyteller, a gift he excercises at schools, clubs and societies, and as an after dinner speaker. Stories are recounted on the move during daytime guided tours and twilight ghost walks, and as a commentator at a dozen or so Highland Games each year. Stories told to enliven his whisky tasting sessions are always presented in the right spirit! Red Sky at Night, his first book and a UK bestseller, won him a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. His second book, On the Trail of Rob Roy MacGregor, is due to be published soon.

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'Mr Barrington is a great pleasure to read. One loarns more things about the countryside from this account of one year than from a decade of "The Archers"' - THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Powerful and evocative... a book which brings vividly to life the landscape, the wildlife, the farm animals and the people who inhabit John's vista. He makes it easy for the reader to fall in love with both his surrounds and his commune with nature' - THE SCOTTISH FIELD 'An excellent and informative book.... not only an account of a shepherd's year but also the diary of a naturalist. Little escapes Barrington's enquiring eye and, besides the life cycle of a sheep he also gives those of every bird, beast, insect and plant that crosses his path, mixing their histories with descriptions of the geography, local history and folklore of his surroundings' - TLS 'The family life at Glengyle is wholesome, appealing and not without a touch of the Good Life. Many will envy Mr Barrington his fastness home as they cruise up Locah Katrine on the tourist steamer' - THE FIELD 'I read John Barrington's book with growing delight. This working shepherd writes beautifully about his animals, about the wildlife, trees and flowers which surround him at all times, and he paints an unforgettable picture of his glorious corner of Western Scotland. It is a lovely story of a rather wonderful life.' - JAMES HERRIOT


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780946487608
  • Publisher: LUATH PRESS LTD
  • Publisher Imprint: Luath Press Ltd
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Returnable: LURTRN
  • Weight: 313 gr
  • ISBN-10: 094648760X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 1999
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: LURTRN
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 134 mm


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